JiminDenver wrote:
BFL13 wrote:
Good first taste! When you can, please do more comparisons of the Eco-W and MS. This should resolve many things :)
Will do. I haven't renewed the craigslist ad so the last one doesn't sell before I've had my fun. ;)
Just tell me what measurements you want to see. I'll need to pick up another multimeter because I didn't realize I had one of them set to amps when I went to check the Voc and pop, it died. lol The next one will be a 20a.
I know the MS is logging if I can get the MSView to work.
One thing is more of what you started in the OP of output watts compared with panel rated watts. Given the panel is at the same Isc in each case, do you get more watts out of one or tother?
I can never seem to get more than about 200w from my "230w" panel even when it is showing over its rated Isc (which I would have thought meant it would be at 230w---nope!) I can account for about 14 of those missing watts but not the other 16w. Might be the panel is not really at STC despite the rated Isc , or it is but panel heating has killed the missing 16w. OR the Eco-W ate them!
If the MS does the same, then no worries. BTW if the output amps is the same but the output watts are different, then either the battery voltage is not the same or their displays for watts are not to the same calibration?
--on meters, I gave up on the $10 ones I kept frying going between amps and volts. I got the more expensive version that has a fuse in it you can replace. I still make the same goof, but a fuse is cheaper than a meter. I think I am ahead in meter dollars already, from doing that so often! :(
